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... 1497 before turning 20, despite the many efforts of his doctor. The frog would represent the physician who treated him, Doctor Parra, giving the frog its nickname of “Parrita” (Little Parra). The legend is that students of the University (the oldest in Spain and third oldest in the world) must spot the frog on the skull on the facade of the University, otherwise they will not be able to graduate as doctors! With the shops closed, ...

... people pretending to be characters from the show killing off the zombies in the prison yard. And for 5 Euros, you could go into the haunted house.

I met a couple new people from Madrid on the line for the haunted house and told them how big a fan I was of The Walking Dead. Even though I was technically after them in line, they told me they thought I would be better off going first. Without even thinking I happily lead the group through ...

Hola! Today we had our placement test to figure out which group of classes would best fit us. We woke up at 7am for breakfast. I walked into three doors this morning because I am not used to the doors being closed all the time. Breakfast was as usual, except I had tea this morning, which was actually pretty good. And I snatched a banana from the fruit basket (I don't think they eat fruit for breakfast like we do). After that I got ready because we had to ...

... we had something at 8, but had no idea what. It was still so hot, think I had truly melted. Turned out it was an official funtion put on by the university for us and other teachers here on the the same programme. Everyone was dressed up and we were just in our shirts and shorts, very under dressed. Chantel grabbed a quick it on one of the benches, unfortunately without any warning, it collapsed and poor Chantal needed up on the floor in a heap. She was ...

... we did accidentally explore quite a bit of the city and saw many of the sites we wanted to, including the Casa de las Conches, a building decorated with carved scallop shells, which were dropping inky diagonal shadows against the warm golden-coloured stone. Then, back to the cathedrals (they had apparently vanished so it took us a while to find them) and bought a ticket which gives access to the high bits, through narrow corridors and spiral stairways cut into the stone of ...